Invented in 1930s, Aerogel is the world's lightest solid material. It is 99.8% air and is 1000-less dense than glass. An ounce of this material can cover an area of 10 football fields! That's not its only amazing property: it has 39 times the insulation factor of fiberglass. Link to Berkeley National Laboratory's Aerogel Website |
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| Artist Boris Bally said:
He made his "urban mojo" from 100 hand-gun triggers! Link (via Jaf Project) |
Canadian artist Yee took 1 year to design and create the world's most complex paper model: a working (all parts move properly) V8 engine made from 5756 pieces of paper! Link (via BoingBoing) |
| Chris Voigt, a professor at University of California at San Francisco (my alma mater, yay!), is 29 years old when he created a 100-megapixel per square inch camera out of the bacteria E. Coli. That's 8x more megapixels than today's best digital camera! Link to Antenna Science News Article | Live Science Article | Chris Voigt's website |
| Toysafety.net has a list of toys you shouldn't buy. One category that caught my eyes is potentially toxic toys. From the website: "the soft plastic face [of Gloworm] contains three types of phthalates (DEHP, DBP, and DNOP)." Scary. Link |
| In this amazing clip, Ting Ting plays Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, Third Movement (Alla Turca) using an ancient Chinese lute called a "Pi Pa". Link (via grow-a-brain) |
| From the website: "What happens when you take a gang of 25 punks, sceneagers and freaks to Wal-Mart for a dance party on the busiest shopping weekend of the year?" http://toiletpaperonline.typepad.com/the_blog/2005/11/walmart_dance_p.html |
| PT-141, a drug made by Palatin Technologies, a biotech company out of New Jersey, is not just any nasal spray for women. In test studies, doctors say that women who used it "felt a tingling or throbbing followed by a strong desire to have sex immediately after spraying their noses." Link |
This Japanese website has cool paper models of Harry Potter's Buckbeak (with moving wings!) for about $10, Knight Bus for $16, and Quidditch Stadium for $21. http://www.don-guri.com/harry/index.html (via Paper Forest) |
| Crosswind from a 747 engine at full thrust flips & rips apart a Ford Mondeo and Citroen CV2 sedans from 50 yards away! Link (ads maybe NSFW, via Attu Sees All) |
| Scientists from the Alfred Wegener's Institute for polar research had captured the sounds made by a colliding iceberg. " Tracking the signal, the scientists found a 50 by 20 kilometer iceberg that had collided with an underwater peninsula and was slowly scraping around it. 'Once the iceberg stuck fast on the seabed it was like a rock in a river,' said scientist Vera Schlindwein. 'The water pushes through its crevasses and tunnels at high pressure and the iceberg starts singing.' " The MP3 is speeded up to make the sounds audible to humans. |
Poland's new government decided to reveal top secret Warsaw Pact military archives, including plans of a seven-day nuclear holocaust war plan between NATO and the Soviet bloc. Link |
From the website: "In January 2002, a dull star in an obscure constellation suddenly became 600,000 times more luminous than our Sun, temporarily making it the brightest star in our Milky Way galaxy." This explosion is that of the mysterious star is called V838 Monocerotis, as seen by Hubble. Link |
This is one of Tim Flach's interesting animal photos (the other one I like is the elephant! Check it out: |
Marc De Repentigny built these awesome fully transformable Transformers' Halloween costumes. Link (via BoingBoing) |
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